Shell Programming and Scripting

Are you intending to automate the run of "my_script.ksh" or run it manually? The script I posted assumes that you will run it automatically.
I guess that "my_script.ksh" will need to take filenames as parameters.

It would help id we could see "my_script.ksh".

Its just that i need to transfer the set, then run my_script.ksh.
My script will only check it the 2 files are available or not...if yes it will finish and exit..
Then again i cp second set and again run my_script.ksh..

Yes ofcourse my_script is taking 2 filenames as it parameter...

I hope this will help you...

In my posted script the call of "my_script.ksh" is inside the do-done loop and will be executed each time a each pair of files are copied.
I thinks that all you need to do is to adjust the call to "my_script.ksh", though it does depend on what is in the script and whether it contains relative or absolute pathnames.

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I might be understanding the problem.

Are there actually 9 files ? i.e. Are say "1.DE" and "1.TXT" separate file names?

@ Methyl

could be shorten a little like

Code:

for i in 1 2 3 4
do
    if [ ! -f "$i".DE || ! -f "$i".TXT} ]
    then
        echo "Err : file missing"
        break
    fi
    cp "$i".{DE,TXT} 5.Fe.ok /usr/dob
    if ( ! /pathname/my_script.ksh >/dev/null )
    then
        echo "Err : my_script.ksh execution error"
        break
    fi
done

I think that crsgnb has cracked it. We must assume that there are 9 files (not 5 files) and that the O/P has a modern "bash" Shell.
(the ".ksh" is omninous).

Thanks Methyl...The for loop script is working pretty fine..
Just another question on the same front...
It will be ok is i have 3 or 4 file, so as per your script we can put 3 file names in the for loop but its not fesible if there are more then 50 or rather 100 files. It will be highly impossible to put all the file names in the for loop.. Any suggestion in the regards or may be the script if u have.......

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Sorry i didnt get you..Waht do u mean by "I think that crsgnb has cracked it."

instead of

Code:

for i in 1 2 3 4
do
...
done

go for a while loop

Code:

i=0
while [ $i -lt 100 ]
do
...
let i++
done